Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java
- From: "Wander Winkelhorst" <w.winkelhorst@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:45:35 +0100
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
Interesting read:>
> http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
>
> Personal comments:
>
> Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop
> up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial
> difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for
> device drivers development. Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of
> usability/supportability/extensibility etc. udev is a Linux thing,
> whereas Java is at industry level. If everyone write applications
> device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific
> stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like
> TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C
> lang - the monopolizer till today in the kernel world
> (Windows/MacOS/Linux/BSD etc). Ie, imagine using a drivers written for
> the Solaris in Linux, won't it be cool?
LOL.. good joke!
But as others have pointed out, you missed April's fools by 1 day.
It is actually 1st of april in Kiritimati for about 45 minutes at the
time of this writing.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=274
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